> There are a lot of annoying ways to code, but I see nothing wrong with
> theirs. I certainly don't waste time counting tabs and spaces when I'm
> coding unless I have nothing else to do; and if I had the time to do that
> with other peoples scripts I would be out looking for a life.
I'm not counting them. I'm frustrated by having to change my tab settings
every time I load their code in, since the first layer of indentation
disappears. I'm frustrated by having to hit spaces or tabs to figure out
how to match their indentation style when I'm patching their code. It's
frustrating, and gets in the way of getting the job done. So that I can go
out and have a life ;-)
I'm not asking for a lot. I'm asking for (assuming vi)
vi *.cgi *.pm
s/ /^V[tab]/g
vi .exrc
set tabstop=4
Viola: the code looks the same to them and isn't something we're constantly
having to reset our editor preferences to work around.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2000 10:49
> Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
>
> >
> > i did not want to add to this thread because it seems to be going nowhere,
> but it seems necessary to point out that it is only common sense and
> courtesy to other programmers to use CONSISTENT spacing.
> >
> > be that 4 spaces, 8 spaces, 2 spaces, 1 tab or whatever, choose your
> indentation and stick with it! -- and above all else, do not mix tabs and
> spaces!
> >
> > it is foolish to assume that one editor will treat tabs the same as
> another .. even the same editor on a different machine may treat tabs
> entirely different; everyone likes to have their tabs set to their own
> special widths and forcing them to change it to match yours is a good way to
> annoy people. (as this thread so plainly shows)
> >
> > -s.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steven Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 23. August 2000 06:00
> > > To: 'Joe Rhett'
> > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> > >
> > >
> > > FWIW, I agree. I use the rather wonderful TextPad when in
> > > Windows which give
> > > me the option to indent things on a per-doctype basis - I'm
> > > no expert on
> > > Unix editors in general but I'm pretty sure that they can do
> > > similar stuff
> > > too.
> > >
> > > I'm personally used to seeing things indented by 8*X columns,
> > > not (as is the
> > > case with some of the opensrs code) 8 and then 4 spaces.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steven Fletcher
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > No... tab settings are specific to the editor. In the file,
> > > > it's just a tab.
> > > > 1 character. How it displays a preference of the user.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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